Re: Drive type...
Chris Adams <[email protected]>
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Once upon a time, Nicholas Bastin <[email protected]> said: > On 24 Aug , 2007, at 12:36 , Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: > >Brian Reichert wrote: > >>On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 03:36:16PM -0500, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. > >>wrote: > >>>Dint occur to me until I read this...if it is raid, you should be > >>>able to unplug the power and signal connectors and pull it out of > >>>the case, shouldn't you? > >>RAID != hostswap > > > >I know. But if it is already dead? > > Then you just nuke the controller by pulling the still electrically > connected drive out... Don't forget the other (still functioning) drives on the same cable; you can fry their interface as well. Basically, if it isn't designed for hot-swap, you are taking a big chance if you try to hot swap things anyway. -- Chris Adams <[email protected]> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. _______________________________________________ "Eat sushi frequently". - Avi [email protected] is the human contact address. [email protected] is the list posting address. See below URL for subscribe/unsubscribe and list options: http://inet-access.net/mailman/listinfo/list